Newfound compassion after prostate cancer: A psychometric evaluation of additional items in the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3371-3378

  Morris, Bronwyn A ^a,b   Wilson, Bridget ^b,c   Chambers, Suzanne K ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CANCER COUNCIL QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compassion; Posttraumatic growth; Posttraumatic Growth Inventory; Prostate cancer; Psychometric

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO LIFE; CANCER SURVIVOR; COMPASSION; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DISPOSITIONAL POSITIVE EMOTIONAL SCALE; EMOTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH INVENTORY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RATING SCALE;

AGED; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMPATHY; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84889084497     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-013-1903-7     Document Type: Article

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